CTMU sources

This page lists sources containing information about Chris Langan's Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe (CTMU).

Websites

• Official sites
  • ctmu.org, ctmu.net, teleologic.org, theoryofeverything.net
  • http://hology.org/, http://hology.org/ctmu-papers/
  • Mega Foundation
  • Mega International (various CTMU pages)
  • ANKORT Blog Version
  • The Hard Way - Chris Langan's blog
  • Chris Langan is creating Reality Theory - Patreon: Become a Patron
  • Mega Foundation is creating Resources for the Severely Gifted Patreon: Become a Patron
  • CTMU Knowledge Base For immediate access to the Knowledge Base, Subscribe to Chris Langan on Patreon ! (Follow @RealChrisLangan on Twitter and get free KB access (p: ctmu-kb) until 2021)
  • Chris Langan and CTMU quotes on Twitter
  • Chris Langan on Gab
  • Chris Langan - ThinkSpot
  • Chris Langan on Substack Straight talk about Absolute Truth from the world's greatest (and most cancelled) living philosopher, Christopher Michael Langan.
  • Mega Foundation on Substack The CTMU Teleologic Living Plan, a way-of-life program based on CTMU cosmology (9-step way-of-life program that applies the logic of the Golden Rule to each level of Stratified Identity.)

• Community sites
  • CTMU Facebook group (Langan is participating, since May 23, 2017)
  • ctmucommunity.org - this wiki!
  • CTMU Commune Wiki - a wiki for aca-hippies!
  • CTMU reddit board
  • [1] - Unofficial CTMU-inspired blog
  • [2] - The new CTMU blog!
  • Fandom CTMU DatabaseWiki

Books

• Langan, Christopher M. (2002). The Art of Knowing. Mega Press.

• Langan, Christopher M. (2019). Introduction to Quantum Metamechanics (QMM). Mega Foundation Press.

• Langan, Christopher (2020). FAQs About Reality: Chris Langan's Social Media Posts, Book 1: Quora Mega Foundation Press.

• Langan, Christopher Consider Supporting the Author of the CTMU and Sharing His Work as a Gift from among Six Titles Available on Amazon

Papers

• Langan, Christopher M. (2002). "The Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe: A New Kind of Reality Theory". Progress in Complexity, Information, and Design 1.2–1.3.

• Langan, Christopher M. (2004). "Cheating the Millennium: The Mounting Explanatory Debts of Scientific Naturalism". In Uncommon Dissent: Intellectuals Who Find Darwinism Unconvincing, edited by William Dembski. ISI Books. Google Doc Draft version

• Langan, Christopher M. (2017)."An Introduction to Mathematical Metaphysics". Cosmos and History 13(2). HTML version

• Langan, Christopher M. (2018). "Metareligion as the Human Singularity". Cosmos and History 14(1). HTML version

• Langan, Christopher M. (2018). "The Metaformal System: Completing the Theory of Language". Cosmos and History 14(2). HTML version

• Langan, Christopher M. (2019). "Introduction to Quantum Metamechanics (QMM)". Cosmos and History 15(2). QMM Paperback available on Amazon

• Langan, Christopher M. (2020). "The Reality Self-Simulation Principle: Reality is a Self-Simulation". Cosmos and History 16(1). HTML version

Articles and essays

• Langan, Christopher M. A Very Brief History of Time.
• Langan, Christopher M. The Theory of Theories.
• Langan, Christopher M. On Absolute Truth and Knowledge.
• Langan, Christopher M. Introduction to the CTMU.
• Langan, Christopher M. A Day in the Life of Jojo Einstein, Street Clown ~ Part II.
• Langan, Christopher M. The Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe as the Nexus of Spirituality and Cosmology.
• Langan, Christopher M. Flash from Deep Space: Supernews on Supernovas/Physics and Metaphysics.
• Langan, Christopher M. CTMU Diagrams

Early writings

• Hart, Eric (1989). Editorial, Brains as Models of Intelligence, On the Paradoxical Connection between Money and Brains, On the Differences between People, Birds, and Bees https://megasociety.org/noesis/41/ Noesis 41.
• Langan, Christopher M. (1989). "The Resolution of Newcomb's Paradox". Noesis 44.
• Langan, Christopher M. (1990). "The Resolution of Schrodinger's Paradox: Reality Research in the Computational Universe". Noesis 47.
• Langan, Christopher M. (1991). “On Metaprime Sequences” Noesis 60.
• Langan, Christopher M. (1992). "The Mathematical and Metaphysical Bases of Choice, Purpose, and Free Will". Noesis 71.
• Langan, Christopher M. (1992). "Letter on the Universality of Tautology and Metaphysics". Noesis 76.
• Langan, Christopher M. (1993). "Some Miscellaneous Implications of CTMU Structure". Noesis 79.
• Langan, Christopher M. (1993). "LETTERS TO AND FROM CHRIS LANGAN". Noesis 82.
• Langan, Christopher M. (1996). "News from Times Square and On Newcomb’s Paradox". "Noesis" 123.
• Langan, Christopher M. (1996). "Chris Langan Writes to Hoeflin, Cole, and Rosner". "Noesis" 121.
• Langan, Christopher M. (1997). "Some Q & A on The Resolution of Newcomb's Paradox". Noesis 130.

Discussions

• Straight Talk About God
• Live Moderated Chat: Christopher Langan
• Discussion with a member of the HIQ community
• Langan on Quora
• Chris Langan’s Answers on Quora (Google Doc)
• Topica CTMU list - official e-mail list
• CTMU Q & A
• HIQ & A - CTMU and God
• ABCNEWS.com chat transcript
• Noesis - for CTMU discussion, see issues 44-46, 57-59, 62-63, and 76
• MegaBoard Discussions/ CTMU Forum - (Audiobook Version)
  • A Dialogic Response to an Atheist
  • Discussion with CTMU Conference Members
  • Discussion on the Ultranet List
  • Discussion with a Mega Society East Member
  • Discussion at the utne cafe Discussion at the Utne Cafe
  • Dialogue between Christopher Michael Langan and Russell Fred Vaughan, Ph.D.
• Colloquy discussions (CML = Langan)
  • Intelligence: Meaning and Measurements
  • God, the Universe, and Theories of Everything
  • On Nagarjuna and the Heart Sutra
  • Altered States and Psi Phenomena (Part One)
  • Altered States and Psi Phenomena (Part Two)
  • On Society and Socialization
  • Depression, Genetics, and Brain Physiology
  • Survival Issues of the Twenty-first Century
• ISCID discussions - (Audiobook Version)
  • Cosmogony, Holography and Causality
  • Critical Questions
  • CTMU and the Axiom of Choice
  • Evolutionary Intelligence
  • Karl D. Stephan: Tegmark’s Parallel Universes: A Challenge to Intelligent Design?
  • On Progress, Readdressing Reality Theory, & Information in the Holographic Universe
  • Organisms using GAs vs. Organisms being built by GAs
  • T-Duality Universe
  • Virtues of Scientists
  • ISCID Live Moderated Chat 08/21/2002: Christopher Langan
• Blog Discussions -
  • Two For One: Crackpot Physics and Crackpot Set Theory
  • Another Crank comes to visit: The Cognitive Theoretic Model of the Universe
  • Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter This Thread
  • Langan’s “Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe” on Ben Goertzel's blog, October 2015 (scroll down for Langan's reply under blogger profile “Unknown”)
  • Encyclopedia of American Loons #226: Christopher M. Langan
  • heated debate between Chris, a close female companion, and a user that was censored / deleted from their forum in 2001
  • Lessons From Langan The world’s smartest man responds to three comments: Vox Day January 21, 2022

Audio/Video

• TV, radio, and online media
  • Morris, Errol. (August 14, 2001). "The Smartest Man in the World" (part 1, part 2, part 3). First Person.
  • Preston, Ray. (November 15, 2006). "Meet the Smartest Man in America". KMOV.
  • Antonia, Maria. (April 30, 2007). "Smartest Man In America Lives In Missouri". KMBC.
  • Mosley, Michael. (February 10, 2009). "Make Me... Smart" BBC.
  • Simone, Rob. (December 28, 2012). "Mind & Reality". Coast to Coast AM.
  • Jay T. (July 15, 2014). "World's Smartest Man Speaks Out!" (YouTube version) The People Speak. BBS Radio.
  • Rick Montgomery (October 12, 2016). "Trump towers in Missouri’s Mercer County, which favors The Donald" The Kansas City Star.
  • Dixon, Tom. (July 20, 2017). "Conversations: Spike Jonze and Christopher Langan". Multiplex.
  • Finley, Louis. (July 28, 2017). "Heartland theorist finding God". KTVO.
  • Marshall, Drew. (October 20, 2018). "Christopher Langan — Proving the Existence of God". The Drew Marshall Show.
  • Patterson, Steve. (March 24, 2019). "The Highest IQ in America | Christopher Langan. Patterson in Pursuit.
  • Harris Jr., David. (January 15, 2021). “Chris Langan Has the Highest IQ in the World! Listen to what he thinks about the election!” David J. Harris Jr. show.
  • Jaimungal, Curt (July 14, 2021). “Chris Langan on IQ, The Singularity, Free Will, Psychedelics, CTMU, and God” (YouTube Audio/Video version) Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal. Host’s Website Audio-Only Version
  • Jaimungal, Curt (September 13, 2021). “Noam Chomsky on Consciousness, Sam Harris, Husserl, and Kripkenstein” (Two Questions from Chris Langan) Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal.
  • Simulation Series #785 (YouTube Interview)
  • Woods, Keith (February 20, 2022). Chris Langan On Intelligence, God and Ultimate Reality
  • Michael Knowles & Chris Langan (May 14, 2022). The Smartest Man in The World | TRAILER
  • Jaimungal, Curt (August 15, 2022). Chris Langan Λ Bernardo Kastrup on Consciousness, Metaphysics, Computation, and God
  • Knowles, Michael (Released June 30, 2022) - Michael & The Smartest Man In The World, Preview plus timestamps and links to the full 2-hour interview!
  • Recorded July 31, 2022; Mature Audiences Chris Langan Presents on the Parasitic Divergence

• YouTube channels
  • metaReligion - interviews and excerpts from CTMU teleconferences
  • CTMUart - animations inspired by the CTMU
  • Siagos - text-to-speech of Langan's writings
  • ChrisLangan - Bitchute Mirror sans YouTube

Mega Society/Mega Foundation's Journals

• "Noesis-E" (Mega Society)
• "Ubiquity" (Mega Foundation)
• "Noesis" (The Journal of the Mega Society, founded in 1982 by Dr. Ronald K. Hoeflin)
• “Noesis 104” (The Journal of the Mega Society, the Mostly Kevin Langdon Issue)

Media coverage

• Brabham, Dennis. (August 21, 2001) "The Smart Guy". Newsday.
• Gladwell, Malcolm. (2008) Outliers: The Story of Success. Little, Brown and Company. [Chapters 3 and 4 discuss Langan and mention the CTMU.]
• Grossman, Lev (2008) "Outliers: Malcolm Gladwell's Success Story". TIME.
• Langton, James "Excerpt from an Interview with Chris Langan". London Sunday Telegraph.
• Larsson, Mats (January 12, 2000) "Smartest in the world". Dagbladet (Note: this article was written in Norwegian)
• McFadden, Cynthia (December 9, 1999) "The Smart Guy". 20/20.
• McKinley, Ed. (February 8, 2021) "The Smartest Man in America?". Luckbox.
• O'Connell, Jeff (May 2001). "Mister Universe". Muscle & Fitness. (Note: use the red arrows to skim through the article)
• Quain, John R. (October 14, 2001) "Wise Guy". Popular Science.
• Ramp. "Chris Langan - the smartest guy in the world". Ramp (Note: this article was written in Swedish)
• Sager, Mike. (November 1999) "The Smartest Man in America". Esquire.
• SuperScholar (December 16, 2010) "Christopher M. Langan Interview". SuperScholar.
• UltraBoard. (January 9, 2000) "Interview with Christopher Michael". Ultranet.
• Wigmore, Barry (February 7, 2000) "Einstein's brain, King Kong's body". The Times.
• Staff Writer (December 24, 2020) “The Smartest Man In The World – IQ 200 – Is Convinced The U.S. Election Was Stolen.”. The National Pulse
• Ulysses S. Tennyson (December 27, 2020) “ The Smartest Man In The World Says Election ‘Obviously’ Stolen” 100percentfedup.com
• Staff Writer (January 27, 2021) 15 People Whose IQs Are Higher Than Albert Einstein’s and What They Do For a Living Bright Side
• Ed McKinley (February 8, 2021) The Smartest Man in America? luckbox
• Adan Salazar (June 18th 2021) “Smartest Man in America” Breaks Down Global Elite’s Vaccine Sterilization Agenda Infowars
• Staff Writer (June 19th 2021) ‘World’s Smartest Man’ with 210 IQ Urges Resistance to COVID Vax, ‘Depopulation Agenda’ Big League Politics
• Stefan Stanford (June 22nd, 2021) 'Mass-Scale Operation' To Exterminate Much Of The Human Race Confirmed: While The 'Elite' Consider Themselves The 'Master Race', They're Killing Off The Reproductive Capabilities Of Everyone Else - Vaccination Nation And The Dangerous Truth About The Globalists Slow Kill Agenda All News Pipeline
• Christopher Langan for All News Pipeline (June 29th, 2021) 'We Are Now A Beleaguered Worldwide Minority Threatened With Genocide, Fighting Against The Stuff Of Which Evil Is Made' - Although America And Liberty Are Under Fire, 'With God, All Things Are Possible' All News Pipeline
• John Farrell (May 23rd, 2007) In Wikipedia we trust?
• Kaleena Fraga (January 4th, 2022) The Strange Story Of Christopher Langan, The Former Bouncer Who Might Be The Smartest Man In The World

Third-party explanations

• Garrett, David Maurice. (August 24, 2020). "Explaining the Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe (CTMU)".

• Mize, Jonathan. (November 23, 2019). God versus Language: Contrasting Metaphysical Methods of Wittgenstein's Tractatus and Langan's CTMU.

• Mize, Jonathan. (March 3, 2020). "Semantics and Semiotics of the Explanation of Reality: A Brief Look into Some Semantic Properties of Langan’s CTMU".

• Tull, Tim. (November 14, 2016). "Explaining the CTMU (Cognitive Theoretic Model Of The Universe)."

• Tull, Tim. (November 6, 2018). "Explaining the Cognitive Theoretic Model of the Universe (CTMU) part 2: Mind equals Reality."

• Morelas, Alexandros. (MAY 16, 2020). "Explaining the CTMU (Cognitive Theoretic Model Of The Universe)"

Related material

Work by Chris Langan which does not discuss the CTMU directly, but has connections to it.

• Langan, Christopher M. Zen and the Art of the Deal.
• Langan, Christopher M. Brains as Models of Intelligence.
• Langan, Christopher M. (2000). "Paradox Resolved: The Kraitchik and 2-Envelopes Paradoxes". Ubiquity.
• Langan, Christopher M. (2000). "The Resolution of Economic Paradox: Toward a Theory of Economic Relativity".
• Langan, Christopher M. (2001). "Self-Reference, and Computational Complexity" from Noesis-E, Vol. 1, no. 1

Other & Non-related resources

• "On Ayn Rand's Philosophy". - by Christopher Michael Langan

• "Anthrax and the Common Man: Forewarned is Forearmed". - by Christopher Michael Langan

• "On High-Ceiling Intelligence Tests". - by Christopher Michael Langan

• "The State of the HIQ World: Genius versus Academia". - by Christopher Michael Langan

• "IQ, IEQ and Intelligence". - by Christopher Michael Langan

• "ViloX Search On The Fly Technology". - An Overview by Christopher M. Langan

• "Discussions on Genius and Intelligence" - Mega Foundation Interview with Arthur Jensen

• "The Church of Teleology of Multiplex Unity", a nonprofit religious-purpose corporation founded by Langan on 1993 and currently dormant (as mentioned here).

• Un-official CTMU continuity website

• Mega Foundation Links

• “By Way of Explanation” by C.M. Langan

• “Which came first...” by C.M. Langan

• “Millennium Mouse: An Ecological Parable” by C.M. Langan

• “The Global Consciousness Project: An Interview with Roger Nelson” by Gina Lynne LoSasso and Christopher Michael Langan

• "On Langan’s Theory Of Theories." by Latour, Pierre R.

• The Portable Chris Langan Compilation from Various Sources

• Chris Langan comments and mentions in Google Groups

Unofficial Translations

Unofficial Ukrainian and Russian translations of "An Introduction to Mathematical Metaphysics" paper:

• [UA] [3]

• [RU] [4]

Unofficial Ukrainian and Russian translations of "The Metaformal System: Completing the Theory of Language" paper:

• [UA] [5]

• [RU] [6]

Alternative-Media References, Explainer Videos, Open-Letters and Fora

• Henrik Palmgren (Red Ice Radio) on Twitter citing Chris Langan

• October 21, 2015 Ask a science teacher: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? By | Fox News citing Chris Langan

Mathematical Metaphysics (YouTube Channel) https://youtube.com/channel/UCl4nmBxv3CyQja8b2QWzk6g/videos

CTMUist (Bitchute Channel) https://www.bitchute.com/channel/DLNouD3fSemo/

CTMUist (YouTube Channel) https://youtube.com/@ctmuist

“ArtiFact #23: Sciolism – Jordan B. Peterson, Christopher Langan, Athena Walker & Quora Experts

Over the past decade, pretenders such as Jordan B. Peterson, Joe Rogan, Sam Harris, the latter-day Richard Dawkins, Christopher Langan, Ben Shapiro, as well as their liberal counterparts have taken attention away from those with genuine ideas to impart. In this video, Alex Sheremet and Dan Schneider comb through these sciolists’ aesthetics, their claims, their craving for an ever-expanding audience of know-nothings, and various intellectual traps they’ve laid for themselves in the quest for pelf.” https://youtu.be/9e0sb886l1Y

Is Christopher Langan A Fraud? https://youtu.be/r5jVgsdAim8

Debunking Chris Langan and the CTMU https://www.patreon.com/garywhitehall

Transentience (CTMU animations) https://youtube.com/c/Transentience

Two Possible Futures for Humanity Is the dark WEF globalist transhuman future dystopia inevitable? Robert W Malone MD, MS https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/two-possible-futures-for-humanity?autoPlay=true

Big Tech Totalitarianism and the "Poneric Telon" Chris Langan on dual singularities and the coming reality split https://ponerology.substack.com/p/big-tech-totalitarianism-and-the

The CTMU in 5 Questions - #PaCE1 https://youtu.be/mwgepVI98Hs

Chris Langan on IQ, The Singularity, Free Will, Psychedelics, CTMU, and God https://www.actualized.org/forum/topic/90913-chris-langan-on-iq-the-singularity-free-will-psychedelics-ctmu-and-god/?page=2

The 'One' Word of CTMU: Telesis https://youtu.be/8fG8jOrl9uc

{Open Letter} The Theological Model of CTMU : What ‘Holopantheism’ Actually Means [Corrective to Myself] https://gwilford.substack.com/p/open-letter-the-theological-model

CTMU discussion on 4Chan (4/29/23) https://boards.4channel.org/sci/thread/15403457/ctmu

CTMU Singularity channel https://youtube.com/@CTMUSINGULARITY

Dan Schneider on Errol Morris Punks and Punctures Chris Langan https://youtu.be/x8tiYuO4P-o

“In existographies, Christopher Langan (1952-) (DN:1) (CIR:24) (CR:33) is an American autodidact, with a claimed IQ of 190 to 210 (2001), notable as a weed theorist who since circa 1990 as been promoting anti-reductionism (i.e. he argues for "informational reductionism", the view that the basis of reality is not matter and energy, but information), self-motion anthropic principle teleology-themed theory of intelligent design in order to prove the existence of god, via recourse a hodgepodge of standard melting plot theory + ontic opening polemics, namely: complexity theory, information theory, self-organization theory, Markoff processes (i.e. chance), via citation to fellow creationists such as David Berlinski (CIR:19), Michael Behe (CIR:1), William Dembski (CIR:5), intermixed with ideas of John Wheeler (quantum information), Kurt Godel (incompleteness), and David Bohm (holographic universe).” https://www.eoht.info/page/Christopher%20Langan

“@GREGMWILFORD Tirelessly working through of First Order Theology and Philosophy (especially towards Christian Metaphysics and the CTMU); Writing also on Political Theory, History, and Finance Economics. Follow here for Meta-analysis of all these Things.” https://substack.com/@gregmwilford

High-IQ Rankings, Profiles, Estimators in Popular Media and Click-Bait Bios

• 35 People with Higher IQs Than Einstein

• Julien Arpin, World Genius Directory

• Writing to IQ Estimator

• Cox's Study of 300 (301) Eminent Geniuses born from 1450 to 1850, including Flynn Effect Calculations

5 Signs Of A Highly Intelligent Person — From The Smartest Man In America https://www.yourtango.com/self/signs-high-intelligence-smartest-man-america

Fact-Check: Unsuccessful Life of the World's Smartest Man Alive - Christopher Langan https://knowinsiders.com/fact-check-unsuccessful-life-of-the-worlds-smartest-man-alive-christopher-langan-37538.html

Adhara is a gifted Mexican child who has her destiny written in her name https://youtu.be/39KeYwRJ2o4

“In genius studies, Mega Test IQ corresponds to an IQ assigned to a person by extrapolation of their score on a Mega Test, a 48 question test designed by American philosopher Ronald Hoeflin in the early 1980s.” https://www.eoht.info/page/Mega%20Test%20IQ